Mark Roddy
@markr51.bsky.social
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Retired software engineer. I only eat plants. Unprofessional artist. Unreconstructed 1960’s leftist. They were fascists then too. Zero troll tolerance. He/him.
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#beach #dogs #photography a moment of calm, perhaps before a storm.
A dog standing at the edge of an ocean beach. Gentle waves are breaking over a rock. The cloudy sky hangs low over the beach and transitions from white to dark grey.
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Heaven and Hell are ridiculous concepts.
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cajunblue.bsky.social
🚨 Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago answers this question brilliantly. 1/2
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How do the uber workers make a living at those rates?
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We’ve just taken an exceptionally long time to get to another constitutional collapse. More than 160 years since the last one. That is basically all that is exceptional.
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What does chickpea flour do for the bread?
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jessehawken.bsky.social
Halloween costume idea: go out as a wildly unqualified zombie head of the CBS News Division named “Bury Weiss”
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thetnholler.bsky.social
Chicago not letting Portland have all the fun 🐧
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We've produced the reaction: a plague of twerking frogs and other inflatable animals.
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Charlie Chaplin tried.
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Or rolling over in bed and a rib goes wonky.
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If I stay up till 11, instead of waking up at 3 and doom scrolling I wake up at 5 and feel less awful about doom scrolling.
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A contagion of idiocy seems to have swept through the tech billionaires. Thiel and Ellison were always right wing nonces, but wtf happened to the rest of these vile clowns?
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Eating toast with no hands is actually quite difficult.
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Catherine Connolly kept posting #SmearTheBejaysus #SpéirGorm jokes long after they had peaked.
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Biden was both demented and a master criminal.
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Hierarchical authoritarian cults are generally not composed of people who examine their lives.
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All Tron Has Bombed.
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And yet his shit has backsplashed across time. His movies cannot be seen the same way anymore. Keaton was wonderful in Annie Hall, but the movie is diminished.
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Yes and how does that matter?
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markr51.bsky.social
The abolitionist movement had a strong religious component.
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Plenty of examples where coerced faith transitions to ‘real’ faith over generational time spans. See for example christianity and the First Nation people of the Americas. Similarly Islam spread across the world, and quite frequently through coerced faith.
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Christianity and the state have been entwined since the late 300s.

The history of the US includes lots of religious intolerance, but more to the point - 250 years is a blip in human events. No social system is permanent. The USA as a constitutional republic is over.
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They are within the elite of The Regime, why would they jeopardize that?